Service comparison

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale: uptime, incident frequency and resolution times, head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 13 incidents total · From each provider's official status page

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window CockroachDB PlanetScale Δ
Last 24 hours
96.32%
100.00%
-3.68 pp
Last 7 days
86.80%
100.00%
-13.20 pp
Last 30 days
96.71%
99.72%
-3.01 pp
Last 90 days
97.73%
98.68%
-0.95 pp

Uptime is the share of each window with no incident open on the provider's official status page. Δ is percentage-point difference (CockroachDB minus PlanetScale). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

  • CockroachDB

    5 total

    4 major 1 minor
    • Median resolution

      4h 8m

    • Longest incident

      22h 11m

  • PlanetScale

    8 total

    5 major 3 minor
    • Median resolution

      57m

    • Longest incident

      20h 49m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

  • CockroachDB logo

    CockroachDB

    • Oct 6

      Stock out issues in GCP us-central1

      22h 11m

      Minor
    • Sep 17

      Connection attempts failing for multiple Basic tenants in GCP South America (southamerica-east1).

      1h 30m

      Major
    • Sep 1

      Cloud Latency, Delays, Connection Issues

      4h 8m

      Major
    • Aug 4

      Cluster connectivity and execution issues

      20h 3m

      Major
    • Jul 12

      Cluster Creation Failure

      1h 16m

      Major
  • PlanetScale logo

    PlanetScale

    • Sep 28

      Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1

      2h 3m

      Minor
    • Sep 5

      Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP

      14m

      Major
    • Sep 2

      Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases

      10m

      Major
    • Jul 24

      Insights metrics underreporting

      3h

      Major
    • Jul 20

      Insights metrics underreporting

      20h 49m

      Minor

Bottom line

PlanetScale wins

PlanetScale edges out on 90-day uptime.

CockroachDB posted 97.73% vs. 98.68% for PlanetScale (Δ -0.95 pp). Incidents: 5 vs. 8 (-3).

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